Louis Scutenaire was a Belgian French-language poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant. Born Jean Émile Louis Scutenaire in Ollignies, he died in Brussels.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the Magritte Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, the Modern Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum.
The Pavilion of Human Passions, also known as the Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion, is a neoclassical pavilion in the form of a Greek temple that was built by Victor Horta in 1896 in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark of Brussels, Belgium. Although classical in appearance, the building shows the first steps of the young Victor Horta towards Art Nouveau. It was designed to serve as a permanent showcase for a large marble relief The Human Passions by Jef Lambeaux.
Constant Dutilleux was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and engraver. He was the great-grandfather of the composer Henri Dutilleux.
Jean Capart was a Belgian Egyptologist, who is often considered the "Father of Belgian Egyptology."
Paul Bouré or Paul-Joseph Bouré was a Belgian artist. Poised to become one of the most notable sculptors of his time, he died at the age of 25.
Alfred Théodore Joseph Bastien was a Belgian artist, academic, and soldier.
Antoine-Félix Bouré, known in his own time as Félix Bouré but sometimes found in modern scholarship as Antoine Bouré, was a Belgian sculptor, best known for his monumental lions.
Jacques de Lalaing (1858–1917) was an Anglo-Belgian painter and sculptor, specializing in animals.
Modeste Carlier (1820–1878) was a Belgian portrait and subject painter.
Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes was a 19th– and 20th–century artistic studio and foundry in Brussels, Belgium, that specialized in bronze sculptures. It became known for casting the works of Auguste Rodin, Rembrandt Bugatti, Paul Delvaux, and many others.
Isabella or Isabelle Alice Errera was a Belgian art historian specializing in textiles.
Henri Joseph Thomas (1878-1972) was a Belgian genre, portrait and still life painter, sculptor and etcher from the Belgian School, Brussels, Belgium.
Marcel Wolfers (1886–1976) was a Belgian sculptor, and medallist, well known for his war memorials completed in the Interwar Period (1919–39).
Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones was a Belgian art historian who was the head of conservation of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, of which he was president in 1980, he was also a member of the Free Academy of Belgium and a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a published poet.
Michel Draguet is a Belgian art historian, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and previously the director and CEO of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium since May 2005. Draguet is a member of the board of the federal administration for science: the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO).
Lucie Jacquart (1882–1956) was a Belgian artist who lived and worked in Brussels. She is known for her still life paintings. Her work 'White Azalea' is in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and other works are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Ghent) and of the Belgian state.
The Bizot group, sometimes called The International Group of Organizers of Major Exhibitions, and also known as Groupe Bizot, is a group, founded in 1992, which periodically brings together the directors of the largest museums in the world, constituting a place for exchanging ideas, recent museum news, and a forum for discussing ideas.
Jean-Marie Gaspar, usually called only Jean Gaspar (1861–1931) was a Belgian sculptor.
Charles Picqué, also called Charles-Louis Picqué, was a Belgian painter, lithographer and engraver known for his neo-classical and romantic works. He was distinguished in several fields: portraiture, landscape, still-life, sacred art and history painting.
